LSE: Public lectures and events
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The Active Ingredient of Inequality
October 26, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBContributor(s): Professor Francisco Ferreira | Around the world, people’s life chances are powerfully shaped by their race, gender, place of birth and family background. Two individuals born in the same city and on the same day may turn out to have very different schooling opportunities, to meet with different treatment by the police and other state institutions, and to face different job market conditions, depending on the neighbourhoods and families they were born into. In this lecture, Pr...
Racism, Imperialism and Decolonization in International Relations
October 26, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBContributor(s): Dr Musab Younis, Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, Dr Nivi Manchanda | The panel will address four key questions related to International Relations as a mainstream academic discipline and racialized politics. Why might Black Lives Matter be a subject for scholars of IR or world politics? Has the discipline acknowledged its original sin in terms of erasing non-Western history in helping to shape international society? Has IR taken seriously the colonial histories that were constit...
100 Great Black Britons
October 23, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MBContributor(s): Patrick Vernon, Dr Angelina Osborne | Join us in Black History Month for this event with Angelina Osborne and Patrick Vernon, the authors of 100 Great Black Britons, to celebrate the publication of their new book. The arrival of the SS Empire Windrush in Britain from the Caribbean has been mythologised as the defining moment that changed Britain from an exclusively white country into a racially diverse one. Yet Africans have been present in Britain since Roman times and there ...
The European Central Bank Between the Financial Crisis and Populisms: a conversation with Ewald Nowotny
October 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBContributor(s): Dr Sebastian Diessner, Dr Corrado Macchiarelli, Mara Monti, Professor Ewald Nowotny, Professor Claudia Wiesner | The ECB's actions during the crisis were of immediate political importance, not only for the financial and banking sector but for the European Union and its legitimacy altogether. Drawing on different experiences, Sebastian Diessner, Corrado Macchiarelli, Mara Monti and Claudia Wiesner offer a detailed analytical narrative of the ECB's reaction to the financial cris...
Policing as a Public Good
October 22, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Tracey L Meares | In the wake of public criticism of contemporary criminal justice processes in general and of policing specifically, especially in the United States, some critics of these institutions and processes have called for abolition. In this lecture, Professor Meares will discuss the historical context of the abolition of slavery in the United States, locating it in the broader context of Reconstruction, and will offer an idea of policing as a public good th...
A Commitment to Welfare: the impact of Richard Titmuss on health and social policy
October 22, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39 MBContributor(s): Professor John Stewart, Professor Lucinda Platt, Dr Sara Machado, Jon Ashworth MP | Having joined the LSE in 1950, Richard Titmuss almost single-handedly, created the academic field of social administration (what we would now call social policy) in Britain. He wrote extensively on health, inequalities and other welfare issues, which have again come to the fore in the COVID-19 pandemic. What can we learn from Richard Titmuss as we look forward to the post-COVID world? Our panel...
Civil Society Under Threat: COVID-19, authoritarianism and more
October 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.6 MBContributor(s): Dr Sergej Ljubownikow, Nicola Macbean, Dr Mariz Tadros | Since the launch of the global War on Terror, civil society has come under persistent threat. New laws restricting the spaces and activities of civil society have been passed across the world. The rise of populist regimes, increasing authoritarian tendencies and COVID-19 have further tightened controls over civil society. What does this mean for the future of a progressive civil society? Sergej Ljubownikow (@SLjubownikow...
The "State of Emergency" as the Rule and Not the Exception: crisis conditions and exploitative lawmaking during COVID-19 and beyond
October 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Vasuki Nesiah, Carly A. Krakow, Dr Sinan Antoon | Writing in the context of resistance to 20th century Fascism, in his "Theses on the Philosophy of History" Walter Benjamin wrote, “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” The pattern of authoritarian regimes exploiting crisis conditions to push forward unjust and marginalizing reforms has been repeated in the context of numerous cris...
Anti-vaxxers and Other Sceptics
October 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Heidi Larson, Dr Katherine Furman, Dr Rohin Francis | Will a future COVID-19 vaccine be undermined by anti-vaxxers? We discuss the causes of and cures for distrust in medical expertise. Rohin Francis (@MedCrisis) is a Cardiologist at University College London and a writer, comedian, and YouTube content creator. Katherine Furman (@katfurman) is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Heidi Larson (@ProfHeidiLarson) is a Professor of Anthropology, Risk...
The Human in Human Rights
October 19, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Craig Calhoun | In the first in a series of three lectures, Craig Calhoun will discuss the problems which arise from putting a secular conception of the human at its centre for our normative and political imagination. These problems are thrown into relief by contemporary discussions about artificial intelligence and new technologies. Craig Calhoun (@craigjcalhoun) is Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University and Centennial Professor at LSE. He is also ...
Data-driven Responses to COVID-19: opportunities and limitations
October 19, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBContributor(s): Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Orla Lynskey, Dr Alison Powell, Dr Edgar Whitley | These range from contact tracing to address the spread of the disease, through the use of AI in the dashboards that allocate health resources to identifying and supporting vulnerable individuals. This panel will review the opportunities and limitations of data–driven responses to COVID–19 from a legal, societal and technical perspective, highlighting the risks of exclusion and discrimination that ...
50 Years on From the Founding of the Gay Liberation Front: progress made since and applicability today
October 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBContributor(s): Dr Jacob Breslow, Angela Mason, Dr Gillian Murphy, Professor Jeffrey Weeks | The GLF was formed as an international activist movement for the liberation of LGBT people after the Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969. The event will look back at its founding and early history and examine what progress has been made since and what learnings we can apply to the challenges the LGBTQ+ community faces today. Part of the event will include a short presentation from LSE’s archives that ...
Is it Time to Cancel Household Debt?
October 15, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBContributor(s): Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Professor Deborah James, Dr Johnna Montgomerie, Dr Jerome Roos | Does the COVID-19 crisis mean that the time has now arrived for mass household debt cancellation? Central among the many social and economic policy challenges arising in our changed world is the pressing need to address high levels of household debt. Despite the lessons of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, our pre-COVID-19 economic order depended to a dangerous degree on extensive household b...
Democracy and the Supreme Court: judges and the politicians
October 15, 2020 00:00 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBContributor(s): Dr Paul Apostolidis | The settled position of law and the judges in our constitution has undergone very severe stress testing over the last five years, through Brexit and coronavirus. Those two crises demonstrate the dominance of the executive, who as coronavirus demonstrates can change the law at will if circumstances demand it, and the dominance of politics – if the politicians don’t like the limits set by the law they will not only change the law, they may change the consti...
Climate Change, Displacement and International Justice
October 14, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Tahseen Jafry, Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, Dr Joana Setzer | This panel brings together experts in human rights, ethics and global governance to debate the principles of climate justice and how they can be applied to climate-induced displacement. Climate change is widely expected to lead to widespread displacement and migration worldwide. Rising sea-levels, flooding, heatwaves and drought are threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of mill...
Evaluating the Impact of Labour Market Reforms in Greece during 2010-2018
October 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBContributor(s): Professor Nikos Vettas | In the context of three consecutive bail out programs, the Greek state legislated and implemented various reforms aiming to restore its fiscal sustainability and external competitiveness. In this context, the most significant and radical structural reforms took place in the labour market. This public lecture will evaluate the impact of Greek labour market reforms on microeconomic incentives of individuals in relation to entering the formal labour marke...
Young People and (anti-) Racism: whose lives matter in Europe?
October 12, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBContributor(s): Dr Manmit Bhambra, Hiba Latreche, Magid Magid, Dr Emilia Zenzile Roig | In Europe, racism is often dismissed as an issue of the past, the others, or the extremes. People of colour, activists, and academics alike have long challenged this view. Now, in the wake of global protests against racism and police brutality, European publics at large have also been called to reckon with the role of race on the continent. This panel will discuss how racism has deeply shaped both European...
Growth and solidarity: cities reimagining human mobility in Africa and Europe
October 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Ricky Burdett, Marta Foresti, Giuseppe Sala, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr | The Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity, spearheaded by the mayors of Freetown, Yvonne Aki -Sawyerr and Milan, Giuseppe Sala, engages about 20 cities from both continents to develop a joint vision, practical actions, and operational partnerships to support urban development and create enabling conditions for human mobility in their communities. As cities grapple with the impact of the Covid pandem...
A World Safe for Democracy
October 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBContributor(s): Professor G. John Ikenberry, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Minouche Shafik | For the last two hundred years, the liberal internationalist project has built towards an open, rules based, progressive world. Outside threats from illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist populist movements now mean the project is in crisis. G. John Ikenberry will discuss the history of liberal internationalism and will argue for its continued relevance as a force to protect liberal democracy...
Re-thinking Human Behaviour critical perspectives on the psychology of COVID-19
October 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBContributor(s): Dr Rochelle Burgess, Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins, Professor Helene Joffe, Professor Stephen Reicher | This event will focus on the social and community based aspects of human behaviour and health, and the importance of going beyond a purely individual or top-down paternalistic approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rochelle Burgess (@thewrittenro) is a community health psychologist who specialises in the socio-political economy of mental health. She is Deputy director of the UCL...
On Time
October 06, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 35 MBContributor(s): Professor Matthew Soteriou, Professor Elizabeth F. Cohen, Dr Ammar Azzouz | From the political to the nature of our experience, time affects all aspects of our lives. Join us to investigate our complicated relationship with time. Ammar Azzouz (@Ammar_Azz) is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Elizabeth F. Cohen (@alixabeth) is Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. Matthew Soteriou is Chair in Philosophy of Mind at KCL. Sarah Fine (@DrSJF...
The Long Ascent: confronting the crisis and building a more resilient economy
October 06, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBContributor(s): Kristalina Georgieva, Sara Eisen | Join us for this event to celebrate LSE's 125th Anniversary with Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and LSE Director Minouche Shafik. Kristalina Georgieva will deliver the outlook for the global economy. In her speech ahead of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings, she will also outline policy priorities to overcome the COVID-19 Crisis. Kristalina Georgieva (@KGeorgieva) was selected Managing Director of t...
Is perfect the enemy of the possible?
October 06, 2020 00:00 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBContributor(s): Dr Thomas Curran | Jess Winterstein speaks to Dr Thomas Curran about the potential pitfalls of wanting to be perfect. Our society values perfection, but is the concept of perfect really that good for us? The latest episode of LSE IQ explores perfectionism. In this bitesized episode of the LSE IQ podcast, Jess Winterstein speaks to Dr Thomas Curran, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE. While aspiring to perfection may still be v...
What’s the oil rush in Somalia?
October 06, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBContributor(s): Joakim Gundel, Dr Claire Elder, Dr Mohamed Gaas, Abdisalam Mohamed | Somalia is in pre-election mode and is at the same time pushing for the licensing of oil, based on the promising prospects revealed by seismic surveys. A maritime dispute between Somalia and Kenya, in the International Court of Justice, is part of wider regional interests. In 2020, Covid-19 has dramatically reduced the demand and price of oil. The panel will discuss the implications of these dynamics. Joakim ...
Brexit and Culture Wars: is this a new 'normal'?
October 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 38.6 MBContributor(s): Professor John Denham, Professor Sara Hobolt, Chaminda Jayanetti | Brexit has divided Britain like no other political issue in a generation. It raises questions about our social cohesion and our national identity. As political campaigns around the world have elevated identity issues, we ask: is Brexit a symptom or a cause of a new culture war? How should we respond? John Denham is Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics at the University of Southampton. He is ...
Golfing with Trump: economic decline, inequality, and the rise of populism in the US
October 01, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Antigone Lyberaki | How far does economic decline and the rise of inequalities explain the rise of populism? Here, we examine the support for Donald Trump at the local level across the US to assess the importance of these factors: in particular, inter-regional and inter-personal inequalities. We consider how far similar factors explain political changes across other countries also. And, we discuss whether such political effects are here to stay or what might be done...
Science and Politics after the Pandemic
October 01, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Neil Ferguson, Laura Spinney | How has the relationship between science and politics been affected by the COVID-19 crisis and are we seeing a post-populist return of expertise? Neil Ferguson (@neil_ferguson) is Director of the MRC Centre of Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London. His research has informed the response to COVID in a number of countries, including the UK Laura Spinney (@lfspinney) is a science journalist and author of Pale Rider:...
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
September 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Anne Case, Professor Sir Angus Deaton | For the white working class, today’s America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the university educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. In this event, Anne Case and Angus Deaton will discuss their book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism and will tie the crisis to the weakening position of labour, the growing power of corporat...
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
September 29, 2020 00:00 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Rebecca Henderson | The world is on fire. Inequality is skyrocketing while climate change threatens to destabilize the entire economy. What can be done? Join us for this online public event at which Rebecca Henderson will talk about her new book, Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World. In her book Henderson argues that the private sector has a critical role to play in addressing the great problems of our time. Drawing on more than ten years of resear...
Parenting for a Digital Future: how hopes and fears about technology shape children's lives
September 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBContributor(s): Dr Alicia Blum-Ross, Professor Lynn Schofield Clark, Dr Paul Hodkinson, Professor Sonia Livingstone | In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. Join us for this event to launch Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross' new book, Parenting for a Digital Future. In their new book, Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross draw on extensiv...
The World: a brief introduction
September 23, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MBContributor(s): Dr Richard Haass, Professor Peter Trubowitz | Richard Haass (@RichardHaass) is a veteran diplomat, a prominent voice on American foreign policy, and an established leader of nonprofit institutions. He is in his eighteenth year as president of the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan membership organisation, think tank, publisher, and educational institution dedicated to being a resource to help people better understand the world and the foreign policy choi...
Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
September 23, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MBContributor(s): Professor Tony Travers | In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why we’ve all become so disrespectful and intolerant. Using experiences from his career in politics and the media, he says it doesn’t have to be this way, and suggests how we can all emerge from tribalism and division and become more respectful to each other and those who govern us. His book is optimistic about the fundamental decencies embedded in human nature and uses deeply personal anecdotes to expl...
Digital Technologies in the Lives of Children and Young People
September 22, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBContributor(s): June Lowery-Kingston, Dr Marco Hubert, Professor Halla Bjørk Holmarsdottir, Professor Uwe Hasebrink, Professor Leen d’Haenens | The lives of children in Europe are becoming digital by default. Information and communication technologies are valued for the opportunities they afford to young generations for participation, skill development, learning and future employability. But how are children and young people engaging with digital technologies? What are the impacts of digital ...
Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
September 18, 2020 00:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBContributor(s): Professor Stefanie Stantcheva | Stefanie Stantcheva will discuss her recent paper, which explores how far citizens are willing trade off civil liberties during COVID-19, and whether worries about the long term erosion of civil liberties induce citizens to hold on to their rights and freedom even during times of crises. Stefanie Stantcheva (@S_Stantcheva) is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, a member of the French Council of Economic...
How to Make the World Add Up
September 17, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBContributor(s): Tim Harford | Join us for this online public event with Tim Harford on the day his new book, How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers, is published. When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whether it could really be true? Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories – we see them in the papers, on social media, and we hear them used in everyday conversation – and yet we doubt them m...
Greed is Dead: politics after individualism
September 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Paul Collier, Professor John Kay, Baroness Cavendish | Join us for this online discussion between Paul Collier and John Kay about their new book, Greed is Dead: Politics After Individualism, that seeks to set out practical, original and achievable solutions to the extreme political divisions in Britain. Paul Collier is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Oxford Blavatnik School of Government and a Director of the International Growth Centre based at ...
Innovation and Inclusive Growth: COVID-19 as a window of opportunity
September 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBContributor(s): Gordon Brown, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Lord Sainsbury, Tharman Shanmugaratnam | David Sainsbury’s book Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth came out just before COVID-19 forced the global economy into lockdown. This high-level panel looks at the pandemic as an opportunity to promote inclusive growth and innovation in a more sustainable way. In particular, it will examine the role of the emerging and developing world in creating ne...
How We Can Save Capitalism
September 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBContributor(s): Michael O’Leary, Warren Valdmanis | Join Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis, authors of Accountable: How we Can Save Capitalism, for this event about their new book, which offers a blueprint for everyone to take responsibility for using their economic power as consumers, as investors, as employees, and as voters to trigger a fundamental shift away from an economy that is unethical, unfair, and destructive to our environment and institutions. Their investigation cuts through ...
Narrative Economics
September 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBContributor(s): Professor Robert J Shiller | Robert Shiller considers the new narrative epidemics arising post COVID-19. These will have multiple economic effects through time and have already helped produce the most sudden and sharp world economic recession in history. Robert J Shiller (@RobertJShiller) is a Nobel Prize–winning economist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance, among many other books. He is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and...
Making Use of Moral and Social Capital: faith communities and climate finance
September 15, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBContributor(s): Dr Mohammed Kroessin, Loretta Minghella, Professor Nick Robins | This online event will be a live discussion focused on climate finance and the role faith communities might play in global system change, both in the strategic use of their capital assets and their moral and social capital. Speakers will outline the priorities and transition pathways required in our global financial system at the macro and micro levels to support and advance measures to combat climate change and ...
The Serendipity Mindset: the art and science of creating good luck
September 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 34.9 MBContributor(s): Dr Christian Busch | In this talk, Christian Busch reveals the secrets behind the hidden force that rules the universe: serendipity. Modern life is full of chance encounters, changing plans, delayed journeys, human errors and other mishaps. So, what if we use such unpredictability to our advantage? Christian has spent a decade studying hundreds of subjects who improved their lives by learning to see opportunities in the unexpected and exploring how unexpected encounters can en...
The Tyranny of Merit: what's become of the common good?
September 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Michael Sandel | Join us for this online public event with Michael Sandel who will be discussing his latest book, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? In this new book Sandel argues that to overcome the polarised politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imp...
The Role of Academia in Realising the Promise of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
September 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBContributor(s): Dr Jeni Klugman, Joana Ama Osei-Tutu, Professor Jacqui True, Dr Torunn L. Tryggestad | As we look forward to the next decade of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, this event will examine the role, contributions and potential of academic institutions – in research, advocacy, education and cross-sector engagement – in addressing the gaps that exist, determining how best to prepare and serve the next generation and contribute to the full realisation of the WPS agenda. Twenty y...
Can we afford the super-rich?
September 01, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBContributor(s): Paul Krugman, Andy Summers, Dr Luna Glucksberg | The coronavirus crisis has devastated economies and brought existing inequalities into sharper focus. Will it result in higher taxes on income and wealth, as we saw after the Great Depression and WWII? Or will the top 1 per cent continue to pull away from the rest of society? Exploring the question, ‘Can we afford the super-rich?’, Joanna Bale talks to Paul Krugman, Andy Summers and Luna Glucksberg. Research links: Arguing with ...
How can we tackle air pollution?
August 04, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBContributor(s): Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, Dr Ute Collier, Dr Sefi Roth, Dr Thomas Smith | Seven million people die of air pollution, worldwide, every year. This episode of LSE IQ asks how this invisible killer can be tackled. Sue Windebank speaks to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah about her campaigning work for both clean air and a new inquest into the causes of her daughter’s death. In 2013, her daughter Ella Roberta died from a rare and severe form of asthma – she was just nine years old. Ac...
Twilight of Democracy: the failure of politics and the parting of friends [Audio]
July 28, 2020 13:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBSpeaker(s): Anne Applebaum | Anne Applebaum discusees her new book, Twilight of Democracy. As well as a work of memoir and reporting, it is a deep meditation on the central political dilemma of our time: Why did the wave of enthusiasm for liberal democracy, shared across the political spectrum in the 1980s and 90s, come to an end? How did we come to be so divided? Why did everyone get so angry? Anne Applebaum, a historian of totalitarian regimes as well as an analyst of contemporary politics,...
Twilight of Democracy: the Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
July 28, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBContributor(s): Anne Applebaum | As well as a work of memoir and reporting, it is a deep meditation on the central political dilemma of our time: Why did the wave of enthusiasm for liberal democracy, shared across the political spectrum in the 1980s and 90s, come to an end? How did we come to be so divided? Why did everyone get so angry? Anne Applebaum, a historian of totalitarian regimes as well as an analyst of contemporary politics, offers an original interpretation of democratic decline. ...
Populism in the Post-COVID-19 World [Audio]
July 23, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBSpeaker(s): Professor Sara Hobolt, Professor Michael Ignatieff, Professor Andrés Velasco, Jesse Norman MP | Until COVID-19 hit, populist politicians of the right and the left –many of them with evident authoritarian leanings— were on the rise around the world. This panel will focus on the causes and consequences of this populist surge, and will discuss ways in which liberal democracies can respond to the challenge of authoritarian populism. Because populist governments have been especially in...
Populism in the Post-COVID-19 World
July 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBContributor(s): Professor Sara Hobolt, Professor Michael Ignatieff, Professor Andrés Velasco, Jesse Norman MP | This discussion focuses on the causes and consequences of this populist surge, and the ways in which liberal democracies can respond to the challenge of authoritarian populism. Because populist governments have been especially ineffective in dealing with the pandemic, the panel will also ask whether populists will pay a price at the polls or whether, on the contrary, the economic cr...
How to Reform the WTO? [Audio]
July 20, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBSpeaker(s): Ambassador Dr Jesus Seade, Sir Vince Cable, Dr Swati Dhingra, Piroska Nagy Mohacsi | The selection of the World Trade Organization's new Director General presents an opportunity for reform, but it could also result in a further weakening of the institution. Nominations for the position have just closed. LSE is organising a mini-series of presentations and discussions with the candidates. The first of the candidates to present their vision for globalisation, trade and the WTO will ...